Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

The way things are going the future will be ruled by health & safely jobsworths who will want to ban anything that's either fun, risky or just a tiny bit dangerous. Apart from extreme sports which will get more & more extreme.
So trying to jump out of a plane onto a metal spike without a parachute = good.
Smoking a cigarette or having a pint = bad.

Where every single thing you do will get monitored, evaluated & assessed to bombard you with useless junk you don't want. And where you will be expected to retire from your mind numbingly tedious job at 150 years old having spent the first 40 years of your life in education learning how to stare at a computer screen for the following 110 years.

People will become more & more self righteous in thinking that their way will save an increasingly more & more desperate world.

And in an inconspicuous office somewhere in London some record company boss will get some talent show winner to record Unchained fucking Melody.